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Ada, daughter of Beba Golda and Avraham Elimelech Fishman (Maimon), was a relentless fighter for women’s rights, a leader of women workers and a public activist. She was a member of workers’ and Zionist institutions and was even a member of the first and second Israeli Knesset. Her character, her choices and her public work all contributed to her becoming one of the most prominent and impressive Israeli women of the first half of the 20th century. She was a Zionist from a young age and immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1912. During this time, she also promoted workers and in late 1920 was amongst the founders of the Women’s Workers Movement. In 1930, Ada joined the large women’s workers organization known as Ayanot. She also took up her pen as a writer, publishing pioneering historiography about the women’s workers movement in Eretz Israel. Once elected to the Knesset, she fought to expand equality for women. Despite her pioneering work in shaping Israeli society, she has been largely forgotten. This stamp helps to restore her to public memory. Prof. Bat-Sheva Margalit Stern To all philatelic items issued on February 2023
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